Bigby update

Thanks to the influx of summer migrants, my Bigby list has grown by leaps and bounds over the past ten days: it now stands at 107 species.My list was also boosted by recent visits to two cracking nature reserves: Leighton Moss and Potteric Carr.Leighton Moss must be the easiest RSPB reserve to reach...

Wild Weekend

Yesterday afternoon Liz and I returned home from a long weekend spent exploring the diverse range of landscapes and habitats around Morecambe Bay.Wild Weekend

IE can’t set name attribute dynamically.

I keep tripping myself up with this one, IE is unable to set the name attribute for any dynamically created DOM nodes. It doesn’t matter if you clone an existing node, or create a new one, IE won’t set the name attribute. Have a look at this example: var newCheckbox = document.createElement('input'); newCheckbox.setAttribute(’type’,...

Shocking rise in cable thefts

Manchester United Vs Chelsea … I wont be watching the Champions League final.

So this years Champions League final is between Chelsea & Manchester United and I couldn’t think of a worse advert for British football than this. It’s a repeat of last years rubbish display of football that was the FA Cup final, one of the dullest games I’ve ever watched. Chelsea...

It’s almost like Nintendo wants to fail.

I’m starting to think that Nintendo wants it’s Wii console to fail, even before it was launched they took a massive gamble not to significantly upgrade the hardware of the machine from their previous platform, the Gamecube, and invest instead in a novel controller. This gamble however paid...

Boing!

Common Toads, originally uploaded by Roger B. After a couple of false starts, it feels like spring has finally sprung. The buds are bursting, the birds are nesting... and even the...

It could have been worse… it could have been toroidal…

Interview

I was recently interviewed by Elizabeth Edwards for her blog, 1stAngel & Friends. You can read the results here....

Snow = hayfever season